Ask a Woman Who Knows

Dr. Rice, while you remain one of the most eligible women in Washington, how have you avoided being snared in the marital trap?" Morgan asked, unaware that Rice lives on the West Coast.

"Actually, I live in California now," Rice corrected. She said that the "nice Southern girl" in her always expected to get married, but "you don't get married in the abstract, you find someone you want to be married to."

But the case wasn't closed for Morgan.

"How close have you come?" he asked.

"I've come close," she said. "How many times?" Morgan continued, to which Rice laughed and said, "I'm not going there."

Bonus points for Rice's use of humor to deflect an awkward question. Too bad it was followed by another awkward question.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton gets grilled on Good Morning America about the current state of her adult daughter's womb:

Clinton, whose personal life has long been a part of her public life, was also asked if she's hoping for grandchildren now that daughter Chelsea is married.

"Well, you know, I will only get in trouble however I respond to that," she said. "But let me just say, I love babies, so you know, maybe I'll have more in my life some day."

Take a moment to consider this. We live in a world where it's okay to badger brilliant and accomplished human beings—who presumably have many, many fascinating things to talk about relating to their lives' works—about marriage and childbirth simply because they have female reproductive organs.

I'm not trying to be flippant about this, because really, it's depressing. And even more depressing is the fact that women have to be gracious while answering, because these questions assume that marriage and babies are ever-present, important issues on every woman's mind. Again, it's little wonder that women are making such small inroads in Congress.

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